William Blake Quarterly Journal

The summer issue of The Blake Quarterly is out today!

Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly is an online scholarly journal that publishes articles and book reviews devoted to William Blake’s life and artistic career.

You can subscribe here to access articles in the current and back issues online in both PDF and HTML. The current issue features articles by MQUP author G.E. Bentley Jr, the dean of Blake scholars.

Interested in William Blake? Read on!

In William Blake in the Desolate Market, G.E. Bentley Jr. looks at how Blake laboured to support himself as a poet, painter, and engraver. The author details the artist’s various occupations as commercial engraver, print-seller, teacher, copperplate printer, painter, publisher, and vendor of his own books.

Though he made hundreds of folio designs and scores of engravings, Blake was rarely paid more than twenty pounds for two or three years’ work.

The changing prices of Blake’s works, his costs and receipts, as well as his patrons and employers are expertly gathered and displayed in William Blake in the Desolate Market to show the material side of the artistic career in Britain’s Romantic period.

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